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President Obama wants to redraw the global partnership map, risks and all

The good news is that U.S. economic activity is so robust compared with that of current or prospective enemies that global military supremacy can be sustained for only a modest additional increment of national wealth:

Obma administration has the option of building on it, not only by purchasing the sinews of long-term military superiority, but also by bolstering the readiness accounts.

Global military supremacy is affordable at a level of sacrifice that many citizens might hardly notice. In a nation that now spends 6 percent to 7 percent of national wealth on various forms of gambling, it hardly seems unrealistic to expect that half that amount might be spent on defense. After all, the alternative might be to suffer military defeat at the hands of an emerging competitor sometime in the first half of the next century. That may seem improbable today, but who foresaw the full extent of the danger that would be posed by fascism or communism in the early years after the Great War? Human nature has not changed. If no other lesson can be learned from the deaths of 100 million human beings in conflicts during the American Century, there is at least the one that lingers from the experience of Rome two millennia ago as well: Over the long run it costs far more to be unprepared for war than it does to be well-armed and ready.

As ambitious as its $10 trillion domestic agenda has been, the Obama administration has been even bolder and more creative abroad. Led by Secretary Clinton, the U.S. isn’t just talking to the bad guys. From Russia to Afghanistan, China to Syria, the administration has put some mind-bending partnership proposals on the table that, if successful, could transform the world and help our economy. Fat chance? Suspend your disbelief for a moment and imagine Iran as a partner in the Iraq/Afghanistan theaters. How many lives, how many trillions in military spending and nuclear deterrence efforts would that save? Imagine reading about how Syria helped turn Jerusalem and Gaza into a global biotech hub, instead of about how Israel and Palestine turned the region into a biohazardous wasteland. Imagine a China that buys $100 billion worth of U.S. clean air and water technology each year, both lowering global asthma rates and creating tens of thousands of U.S. jobs for high school graduates.

If you think this sounds like “happy talk”–by all means, take a seat. Some of the less charitable folks in Obama’s circle would certainly invite you to sit on the sidelines and doubt them as you did in 2007. They would argue that the failed U.S. economy and our huge deficit demand that we radically rethink one of the biggest items in the federal budget: close to $1 trillion in annual military and war spending. A kinder contingent of Obama supporters (or perhaps just a group of smart historians) would point you to those so-called “sudden” transformations we’ve seen before: South Africa in the early 90s, Northern Ireland in the mid-90s, India in the 40s, even Japan post-World War II.

Of course, as in each of those historic reversals, Obama will need to take great risks to achieve great change. He’s initiated the conversation with Iran by inviting them to a summit on Afghanistan. They’ll want a favor in return. To work with the moderate Taliban (assuming moderate Taliban exist), Obama and Clinton may have to sacrifice some generally non-negotiable principles, namely women’s rights. And that’s if he even gets to the table. This is an administration still feeling its way through the art of diplomacy; clearly, they have yet to master the subtleties of international gift-giving. Entering into so many arenas at once, with such an ambitious agenda, increases the chances of a blunder far worse than a mistranslated word.

Kennedy had the Bay of Pigs, Wilson the League of Nations. Even if Clinton & Company are dramatically successful abroad, a continued recession at home would expose 44 to the same political fate as Jimmy Carter, Bush the First, and Winston Churchill. He’ll need favorable outcomes in upcoming overseas elections (the U.K. this summer, Iran and Germany this fall, Iraq in December) and a healthy dose of luck for the gamble to work. But the upside is clear: if Obama can redraw the global partnership map and stave off a depression at home, the U.S. may spend (and deserve) another 50 years as the world’s leader.

And China should not provoke uncle Sam because Obama is no soft guy. He want peace because that’s the only way we could sort out the so many problems of the world, but the guy can hit back when provoke.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Philippine President Gloria Arroyo on Friday both backed a mutual defense treaty which is under fire following the US refusal to hand over a marine convicted of rape.

Obama and Arroyo spoke by telephone and also discussed climate change, education and anti-terrorism efforts, the White House said in a statement.

“The President called President Arroyo of the Philippines this morning,” the statement said. -abs/cbnnews

OH Mama! Obama’s rating is going down and now the american realized his true color. When he was running against McShame, he promised ot create 1,000,000 new jobs. Then just before he took office he raised it to 3,000,000. Then yesterday, he upped it again to 4,500,000 jobs. I would like to hear the shameful “opposition party” ask him to define how each job will be created. If geitner, Bernanke, Summers give him good advice, he will simply take the $900,000,000,000 and divide it by 4.5 million jobs and go hire these unemployed to clean the streets of america and pay each one of them $200,000 each to do the work with the promise that they spend 90% of it each year. And that will do the job. Do the math and correct me if I am incorrect. But, but, but, that would not leave money for the profligate bankers, the union bosses at the auto companies, the politicians and their lobbyists, and other friends and relatives of the prophet and his entourage.

Obama, Obama
It’s hard when you enter the dragon, you’re now in quandary
If you like to reform the economy, do it in a hurry
As the whole world is in turmoil, not only in your country.

OK, OK, you are given all the power
Just do it right against all odds you may encounter
But if you can’t and wave white flag in surrender
Aren’t you going to call for a domestic helper?

Obama and you, who are in the US of A
It’s not only buy and sell as done on E-bay
What other countries are expecting, collectively they say
Treat them good, treat them nice, treat them fair all the way.

Forget your attitude of being imperialistic
Look at the global happenings and be realistic
Leave behind the old ways of being materialistic
Bond with the poor and small nations, the www will be walastik.

Obama is simply employing a good strategy for his reelection comes 2012. GWB did it in 2003 when he authorized the Iraq invasion – it was a horrible decision but got the majority of the voters sympathy and got him reelected in 2004.

Obama will ride his silver horse until 2011 and with all the billions if not trillions of dollars pumped into the economy, he will do more good than bad for the people and the majority will look into that as a springboard for reelection.
If not, then he will simply be in the mold of Bush 41 and Peanut Butter Carter, add Ford and Nixon the Crook to that list, no offense.

Let’s give the bro a chance, it’s not even two months and he’s trying his best to SOLVE THE ILL EFFECTS OF THE BUSH AND GOP’S EIGHT YEARS OF SCREW UP.

but eniweys, mga kasama it is not so very important in this blog who is magaling or what. basta naibabahagi natin ang anumang maaaring maiambag upang ang talakayan dito ay maging makabuluhan at magkaroon ng buhay, sama sama tayong lahat.

As the topic suggests, it’s CHANGE that the POTUS OBAMA anchored his campaign from the primaries onward which finallly catapulted him to his historic election to the presidency. And while discussing the subject matter in another forum with everyone posting how they perceive change as basis of governance not necessarily in the US of A but more so in local application, here’s what I posted:

Change isn’t going to come from one person, it is going to come from an entire community. The truest quality of the a good leader will not be to move mountains but to move hearts and minds, it will not be to command but to inspire, it will not be to work heroic deeds by himself but to get a nation to do it with him.

As anyone seeking mandate to govern, Obama has the best of intentions. He would like to change for the better based on his battlecry. But at this early, Obama faces Democrat discord on spending plan. Republicans are not the only ones in the U.S. Congress squawking about President Barack Obama’s record $3.55 trillion budget plan.

“Some of the president’s fellow top Democrats also are upset with certain provisions — including ones dealing with farm subsidies, tax deductions and industrial emissions — setting up hurdles within his own party that Obama must overcome.”

Sometimes, it turns out, politicians can be taken at their word. More than a year ago, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama said: “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not, and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” Reagan, he said, “put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it.” The implication was that Obama, if elected, would be no less ambitious.

And as PareCoy discussed above, barely six weeks into his term, Obama has opened his bid to redraw the boundaries of US politics and expand the realm of the possible. As Pinoys, we’re just interested bystanders and wait for the day something good will happen in our own turf.

Public service is a public trust. Ito na ngayon ang hinahanap kay Obama. Change is also felt when public service increases in magnitude. It’s only political leadership and diplomatic relations that count on Obama’s administration. He should also have a personal touch when he talks about public service.

Speaking of public service, I have a topic on the meaning of public service. I am inviting everybody to come read. Thanks.

To the partisans, Obama’s spate of action are understandable even without indepth analysis of things.

But to those who would not just accept what’s being bruited about and offered, siempre kailangan ding pag-aralan ang mga bagay-bagay. It is in this regard that aside from the Republicans, there also Democrats who are already questioning it.

For instance, the stimulus package. He left the details of the projects up to the House Democrats, who are more than willing to fill in the blanks. But his two other major initiatives — his banking and mortgage relief plans — are both flawed and highly unlikely to solve their respective problems. Indeed, they are so wide of the mark and there are many questions asked but the answer will not be immediately known.

The bank bailout plan seems to be largely stillborn. Having wished that the private sector would flock to invest in toxic assets if they are offered the right incentives, the treasury secretary is still hoping. Crossing his fingers seems to have replaced effective policy in his planning. To date, no massive infusion of private sector capital seems in view, and Washington is doing little more than writing checks on its overdrawn account to prop up the failing banks. That doesn’t take a genius. But the difficult task of relieving the banks of toxic assets so they can rekindle the flow of loans seems to be beyond the ability of the POTUS.

At inauguration, you warned those who are corrupt
You will refrain entertaining them even abrupt
They who are kins of Barabas, you’ll not ineract
But it appears now, you’re adopting their Judas trademark.

Just weeks into office where you’re elected
In a massive popular votes to show Bush been rejected
Believing your promises of changes as projected
Will overcome crisis caused by wrong policies and greed.

Some observers are in doubt on Americans’ optimism
It seems they were influenced by rhetorics and hipnotism
Lulled into believing sweet promises to erase pessimism.
We don’t want it, but are we seeing world’s continued antagonism? ..

We heard you loud and clear, then
Now you’re back here story telling a lie again?

In Garci tapes, it was a revelation
You trampled upon the law of God and of our nation,
Government functionaries were used in great proportion
Siphoned datung from the treasury part of tax collection
So that FPJ votes will not not be counted in 2004 election
At all cost, you want to cling to the highest position.

Like a burglar, it seems you don’t have any worry
In Eat Bulaga & Wowowee, you said I’m shorry!
As it appeared later, it’s for the show and bigotry
It’s a pack of lies, sobra ka na glory
Like foul smelling fish served to us in a hurry
As if the public is too gullible to believe your story.

At this moment, you’re a peking duck deep in scandal
The fakery is being peddled around as if it’s real
You can’t fool us no more, you’re so garapal

Fertilizers and OFWs funds, they’re all put to risks
Tongpats from jueteng are used to silence critics
To pay off the solons and wow, even the clerics
Jailing, maiming, killing those they can’t withstand their hysterics
Kwidaw, all your crimes are listed, written like songs lyrics.

There, there, you’re stomach is now revolting
Due to graft and corruption, continued misgoverning
The ills that is day in and day out is happening
Is but a mirror of yourself as peke yet still presiding.

At Plaza Miranda, SM malls, in far flung barangays
The people are aghast and heated up because of your lies.

One day, in symphony with darkness and typhoon
People will rise up and explode like Mayon
Like lava or lahar, it will melt your throne
In a rampaging anger, even the lizard will be gone.

Pareng Magno,
I read your post and you’re fuming mad with Yuko.I tell you something to get even with her.Hehehehe!

Prostitution is not only Philippines concern but anywhere in the world.

Grizzy or Yuko from Japan who has a Japanese blood according to her,and the descendant of Samurai warrior, The king of Kokuryo who pulled blood of Kudara king,Yuko Sang may Fukaku hamekonde chodai me on this even though she’s not my Garufurendo.

Enjo kosai (prostitution) in Japan is not only for Pinay yapayuki,there are also japanese Pan-Pan,Baita or Yuruno-onna (prostitute). Young girls in school who outside school sell sex. Japanese high school girls trying to sell sex. The girls can get big sums of money for doing this, the incentive is of course the money. The girls wore the garment that has totally taken over the kimono’s popularity; the miniskirt.

Foreigners who come to Japan for a short period of time won’t notice this. If you go to Thailand you will see fat old Germans and Norwegians on the beach with Thai children on their laps. Foreigners are disgusted by this. It stops normal people from going to the beautiful Thailand and creates a lot of other problems. For example the high AIDS rate, unemployment, crime and so on.

Japan is definitively more sophisticated. And Japan’s way doesn’t scare away tourists.

It is pronounced “terekrabu” (teleclub) in Japanese. Notice that English words are combined to make up this word (anything sounding American is cool and accepted). All high school students know what a teleclub is. And most female high school students have called such a club.

Let me describe how this works:

Only men go to these teleclubs. They have to pay to be there/get in. Girls call to the teleclub for free, and if things work out they’ll arrange a “date”.

It is impossible for a girl to stay one day in Tokyo without getting a commercial for a teleclub, phone numbers are printed on free tissues handed out all over Tokyo. Girls call to the teleclubs for free, men sit there and wait.

This creates no big problems. Foreigners don’t notice this, only a few can read Japanese. And generally it stimulates growth more than it creates economic problems, the economy is after all the Japanese Government’s main (and only) concern.

The minimum age for having/selling sex in Tokyo is 14.

But what’s the sickening thing in Japan is not only that children sell sex! The total ignorance of the problem is the worst. Women in Japan are used to being suppressed in various ways. They are discriminated in their jobs and forced to become housewives when they get children. For these reasons and more they don’t protest against this sex-sale.

it is completely accepted morally for 14-year olds to sell sex and that they have no problems with it. Mothers don’t care. Teachers don’t care. Girls are expelled for smoking, but they are allowed to sell sex. Teachers may of course also take advantage of the students. And in high school teachers who sleep with students are not at all unknown.

You may wonder why not more foreigners go to Japan to buy sex, the answer is: PRICES.

I can give you some examples. A girl sold her virginity for 1 million yen (60000NOK 10000 USD). That’s a lot of money, even in Japan a teenager can live on 10000 bucks for a while.In Japan taksang-taksang Ero-jiji, Ero-oyajii,okane arimasen Hitorigokko or Hitori-ecchi na lang sila muna ang Chinchi, chinko, chimpo, chimpoko nila.

Just wanted to tell you who never been to Japan and believing Yuko’s fantasy story all the time how she downgraded the moral of Filipina in Japan. Most of you don’t get to see Japans’s backyard, now I have given you a glimpse of it.

I don’t remember which Asia-edition of Newsweek that dealt with this issue in December, but find that one if you are interested in knowing more (cover story). It was a great article that surely pissed of some Japanese politicians who would like to have kept “Japan’s dirty secret” (name of the article) a secret.